Zygmunt Krasiński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈzɨɡmunt
kraˈɕiɲskʲi]; 19 February 1812 â€" 23 February 1859) was a Polish
poet traditionally ranked with Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz SÅ‚owacki
as one of Poland's Three Bards â€" the trio of Romantic poets who
influenced national consciousness in the period of Poland's political
bondage. He was the most famous member of the aristocratic Krasiński
family.Early on, his main works were considered to be the poems
Przedświt (Predawn) and Psalms of the Future, but in time he became
more known for his prose works, dramas, and letters. He authored two
major dramas, The Undivine Comedy (his most famous and enduring work)
and Irydion.[1][2][3][4]Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt
Krasiński was born in Paris on 19 February 1812 to Count Wincenty
Krasiński, a Polish aristocrat and military commander, and Countess
Maria Urszula Radziwiłł.[1] He spent his first years in Chantilly,
where Napoleon Bonaparte's Imperial Guard Regiment was stationed, and
the Emperor himself attended his baptism.[1] In 1814 the two-year-old
moved with his parents to Warsaw, then part of the Duchy of Warsaw,
ruled by Frederick Augustus I of Saxony as a client state of the First
French Empire.[1] Krasiński's cultivated and doting father employed
prominent teachers and tutors, including Baroness Helena de la Haye,
Józef Korzeniowski [pl], and Piotr Chlebowski [pl], to educate
Zygmunt.[1]Following the stabilization brought by the end of the
Napoleonic Wars, which saw the end of the Duchy of Warsaw and the
creation of Congress Poland, the Krasiński family spent most summer
vacations and holidays on their estates in Podole and Opinogóra. On
12 April 1822 Zygmunt's mother suddenly died of tuberculosis, and the
ten-year-old boy became a precocious close companion to the family
head, who instilled in Zygmunt a reverence for chivalry and honor.[1]
Zygmunt's fascination with his father's personality, and their mutual
hopes for a free Poland, led to an excessive, onerous mutual
idealization.[1] [1]
kraˈɕiɲskʲi]; 19 February 1812 â€" 23 February 1859) was a Polish
poet traditionally ranked with Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz SÅ‚owacki
as one of Poland's Three Bards â€" the trio of Romantic poets who
influenced national consciousness in the period of Poland's political
bondage. He was the most famous member of the aristocratic Krasiński
family.Early on, his main works were considered to be the poems
Przedświt (Predawn) and Psalms of the Future, but in time he became
more known for his prose works, dramas, and letters. He authored two
major dramas, The Undivine Comedy (his most famous and enduring work)
and Irydion.[1][2][3][4]Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt
Krasiński was born in Paris on 19 February 1812 to Count Wincenty
Krasiński, a Polish aristocrat and military commander, and Countess
Maria Urszula Radziwiłł.[1] He spent his first years in Chantilly,
where Napoleon Bonaparte's Imperial Guard Regiment was stationed, and
the Emperor himself attended his baptism.[1] In 1814 the two-year-old
moved with his parents to Warsaw, then part of the Duchy of Warsaw,
ruled by Frederick Augustus I of Saxony as a client state of the First
French Empire.[1] Krasiński's cultivated and doting father employed
prominent teachers and tutors, including Baroness Helena de la Haye,
Józef Korzeniowski [pl], and Piotr Chlebowski [pl], to educate
Zygmunt.[1]Following the stabilization brought by the end of the
Napoleonic Wars, which saw the end of the Duchy of Warsaw and the
creation of Congress Poland, the Krasiński family spent most summer
vacations and holidays on their estates in Podole and Opinogóra. On
12 April 1822 Zygmunt's mother suddenly died of tuberculosis, and the
ten-year-old boy became a precocious close companion to the family
head, who instilled in Zygmunt a reverence for chivalry and honor.[1]
Zygmunt's fascination with his father's personality, and their mutual
hopes for a free Poland, led to an excessive, onerous mutual
idealization.[1] [1]
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